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Re:Best of Vim Tips by edwintorok on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @12:02PM (#7944777)
I think you could also ask the question in a different way. What is the market for closed-source text editors? We have open-source text editors, and freeware(?) closed-source ones. So who would buy a closed-source text editor? (Talking about a text editor here, not an IDE)

So then why not just open-source it? Seems to me there are only drawbacks in keeping it closed.

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Re:Best of Vim Tips by sanswork on Thursday June 26, 2014 @01:51AM (#7948284)
I've paid for textmate and sublime text because they were better than their immediate competition for what I use them for. I know lots of other people who have paid for one or the other. I have a really nice tmux + vim workspace I use a lot but for unfamiliar codebases I find exploring a lot nicer in sublime.
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